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[myownbestfriend]

[Emma doesn't advertise the fact, but she's pretty good with electronics. Which means she knows to dial back the resolution and select a highly redundant compression algorithm when she decides to make a video post over the currently-unreliable network.

So there's Emma, grainy and with some fuzzing around the edges, as unimpressed as ever, hair pulled up into a messy knot that somehow seems like she meant it to look like that.]

There are ground troops looking for the catacombs.

[How does she know that? Telepathy. Clever deduction. ]

Unfortunately, the surface is...inhospitable. If you don't need to breathe, or can otherwise shrug off a gas attack, I want to take a group up and see what we can do about thinning that herd, and perhaps getting a few answers.

[If you don't already know that Emma can turn into diamond, she looks ludicrously unqualified for what she's proposing, but her bearing shows no uncertainty at all.]

...Stark, that means you.

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[awarlock]

[this is that awkward moment when you have no idea who the person you're talk to is but they seem to know you]

I often go by that name, yes. My memories of Earth are... foggy. How do you know me?

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[myownbestfriend]

[The X-Men have files on all that cosmic crap because their founder shacked up with Lilandra and their current leader is Corsair's kid.]

I read your file.

["Okay guy until he turns purple."]

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[awarlock]

[You Earth bound beings and your files. Everything needs to be categorized, tagged and pinned.

Somehow, still better than the Kree.]

Your file needs an update, I have new powers now. [But sadly turning purple stays]

What do I call you?

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[myownbestfriend]

[Organization is important, especially when you want to know who's trashing your planet.]

Emma Frost.

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[awarlock]

[it's sort of his planet too]

You mentioned Stark. Is your affilattion with the Avengers?

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[myownbestfriend]

[For a split second, Emma's face is an interesting study.]

...X-Men.

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[awarlock]

[That goes under the things he doesn't care to notice.

He remembers throwning them at all Thanos as pawns. And--]

You don't have a uniform.

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[myownbestfriend]

[Involuntarily, Emma looks down at the X positioned where most men couldn't fail to notice it.]

We haven't done matching outfits for years.

[Not that Emma ever played along with that even when the rest of the team did.]

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[awarlock]

I'm sorry, I haven't been back to our Earth for decades.

[Does he miss it? Not at all]

Send me the point, and I'll be there.

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[myownbestfriend]

[And stay out; Earth has enough problems without dragging cosmic into it.]

Very well.

If I'm out of date on your powers [she's not going to admit that she doesn't remember much more than his name] what can you do now?

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[awarlock]

I can unlock patterns in the universe's laws and reach beyond it. And there's an amount of energy manipulate I can do.

[No, he's not going to tell her about his problems with it right back.]

And you? I'm not familiar with the X-Men.

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[myownbestfriend]

[Emma raises an eyebrow and changes to diamond. She's not discussing the telepathy over an open network, and it won't be terribly relevant on the surface, either.]

This form is functionally invulnerable.